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Most secondary schools don't have to teach the national curriculum. It should be revised and restored – or discarded

By Lorna Smith, Associate Professor in Education, University of Bristol

Each year, when new PGCE students arrive at the University of Bristol to start their journey towards becoming English teachers, I ask them to study the national curriculum. This is the statutory document prescribing what children aged from five to 16 are taught at school.

I do this despite that curriculum appearing increasingly irrelevant. It is rarely – if ever – seen in…

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